Every
year I attend the Goldsmith Prize presentation for investigative
reporting at Harvard. The ceremony – hosted by the Kennedy School
of Government's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public
Policy – is always inspirational, and has certainly pushed me to
bust balls and pursue tougher stories in my own career.

Alright,
foodies. For those of you paying attention, you know the release-date for the
hotly anticipated Lucky Peach Issue 2:
The Sweet Spot is upon us. For those of you who have no idea what I just
said, your world is about to be rocked. Regardless of who you are, get pumped: we
got our hands on an advance copy.

In his unparalleled exposé on the plight of urban vermin and those of us who live among them, Ratsauthor Robert Sullivan describes one scene in which a woman is viciously attacked by rodents during the 1979 New York City garbage strike. The Phoenix also collected some revolting rat tales.

KENMORE SQUARE, FALL 2007 A local marijuana advocate reports that his girlfriend’s car has had its battery cables chewed by furry critters.